Hobbs need to do something special to get students in Piscataway early for Ohio State
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That's the kicker right there. And that is why the Alley was shut down. Don't forget the Barchi admin was risk-adverse, which is why the legal department initially recommended to Pernetti not to fire Rice. I have to believe once they saw pictures of the Alley and the publicity Hobbs brought to it, they went apeshit and had it shut down by the next home game.
If the plans to build the football training facilty on the yellow lot and a soccer practice field on the blue lot are true, then maybe RU should start by not destroying tailgating altogether, before worrying about student tailgating.
Oh, and if they did revive the Alley in some way, shape or form, keep the MCSO's far, far away from it.
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Which was suggested by someone in the thread.
Also suggested by someone in the thread.
Fair point.
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Steve this is an area where I am super passionate, as you are, about. We’ve talked about it on many threads.
What would stop us from organizing a student focused tailgate ?
- we get some sponsors and donors to fund parking passes for them
- we let a Greek or two play host each game where they get the DJ and beverages and they influence their friends to come
- maybe we throw some more money at it to hype it up more with decor , additional entertainment, giveaways, food, etc
It would start slow perhaps but after 2-3 games, just like the Alley , it could become a thing that students enjoy and a new tradition
Is the goal to get them in the stadium for kick off and stay to the end or to have them tailgate? Because this thread is all over the place.
We also need the Boardwalk and the performing Boardwalk band to shut down before the game starts to encourage people to get in for the game. Last home game the band was still playing while the Glee Club was singing the anthem.
It would become giant in a short time, just like the Alley did after one week. Parking passes could never be coordinated to drive in together and you don’t want students driving at all. Need University buy-in at the highest level to create the space. It also needs to be confined/fenced to be controlled. RU has to be “all in “ or it won’t work.
I’m sure the Boardwalk costs tens of thousands of dollars each week and it’s great. Let’s spend a little on the students and give them an area too
I'm just wondering if the area next to the intramural fields they gave them, which was about the time we started tp stink IIRC, would work now?
Been to many stadiums throughout the country. And South Carolina does it the best. Self contained and controlled and patrolled by Greek Council.
They do it right. Have the Rutgers Greek council reach out and find out how they were able to make it work. South Carolina had the same issues as Rutgers and they figured out a way to make it all work.
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They still tailgate but they do it at the fraternities, dorms, and off campus housing. Personally I liked when the students TG'd in the Blue lot. Seeing 17-21 y/o females was a good energy to be around.
staying to the end is going to be pretty strongly correlated to what is happening on the field, so that is kind of hard to control.
in this era of short attention spans, it's no longer good enough to be winning games against bad teams or being competitive with very good teams. it needs to be entertaining, and unless you're a true football fan, this run heavy, time management offense of ours can get rather dull to the casual fan/game attendee.
Both.
Get the students close to the stadium and then get them and everyone else in the stadium before the game starts.
Easy solution. Shut down Boardwalk 20 minutes before kickoff. Have a siren, cannon, intern with a megaphone, wtf ever announce for people to start making their way to the stadium.
Also fix the ticketing lines. Way too slow. Have people redirect fans to the scarlet lot entrance, it's never as crowded as the north entrance.
i think that area is too small....and also on the other side of the stadium from where they have to enter...they should parse out a section of Johnson Park, put a few high volume food trucks for them there to pregame til 1 hour before kickoff.. fact need to make it cost effective and entertaining....
Didn't the roofies take the energy right out of the room, so to speak?
Nope. Do it there in the Middlesex County sheriffs department runs the show. No thank you.
Went to RU Wisconsin a few years ago in the driving rain and stadium just as empty as RU in bad weather. Those who want to badmouth RU will but pretty much the same after the biggies, Michigan, PSU, OSU, Iowa and Nebby. Purdue maybe too but not as big.
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Off topic, but South Carolina also has those Cockaboose's that are pretty unique for tailgating. http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/so...give-south-carolina-unique-gameday-tradition/Been to many stadiums throughout the country. And South Carolina does it the best. Self contained and controlled and patrolled by Greek Council.
They do it right. Have the Rutgers Greek council reach out and find out how they were able to make it work. South Carolina had the same issues as Rutgers and they figured out a way to make it all work.
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Lane stadium began clearing out mid-3rd quarter tonight in Blacksburg. Why? Because it was a BLOWOUT on a Thursday night. ESPN cameras haven't been "panning" the stadium since.
I don't get the comments about students "NOT" going to the games. THEY ARE. 1st 3 games the student section was full to overflow. 4th was Wagner. 5th was God-awful weather for the game (yes, still lame that the ones who showed, left, I'm not arguing). Not an excuse, in my book, but nonetheless. Bottom line it would have been PACKED with any kind of decent weather that day. OSU? There will be 12K+ in the stadium.
The "problem" is getting them ALL into the game by the time the team comes out of the locker room AND keeping them in the stadium. Both, naturally with more winning and better home games (see: games vs good opponents that are exciting to the end), will change soon enough again. I hope. In the meantime, as you know, I'm 100% for "gimmicks" to get them in earlier and make them stay longer!!
The tailgating thing....yeah....it's a conundrum for sure. Wish there was a simple solution but, bottom line, not sure if there is one at this time.
The "problem" is getting them ALL into the game by the time the team comes out of the locker room AND keeping them in the stadium. Both, naturally with more winning and better home games (see: games vs good opponents that are exciting to the end), will change soon enough again. I hope. In the meantime, as you know, I'm 100% for "gimmicks" to get them in earlier and make them stay longer!!
The tailgating thing....yeah....it's a conundrum for sure. Wish there was a simple solution but, bottom line, not sure if there is one at this time.
#3 OSU at Wisconsin....midway through 1st quarter....top 10 rows of Wisconsin student section STILL not not filled in yet (for about 4 sections; 5 rows for the rest).
No....I'm watching on TV....and there have been a few shots of the student section that you can easily see the sections that are filled to the top yet.
*** actually the section furthest to the right has a good 20 rows still not filled in as of yet
It’s a much bigger student section than at RU
Not sure what point you’re trying to make ?
Not sure what point you’re trying to make ?
That means nothing.
I'm just continuing to back up the FACT that most schools have trouble getting all students into the stadium for KO. 5,000....10,000 .....15,000....it's still a "%" thing, right? Some here seem to think this is a "Rutgers" thing but it isn't. Not even close.
FYI - Camp Randall student section holds 14K so I wouldn't call it "much" bigger. Bigger, sure, BUT they are Wisconsin...and since the 1993 have been to The Rose Bowl 7 - SEVEN - times. No other B1G team has come close in that time span (USC has appeared 6 times however). Just since 2016 they've gone to a Rose, Cotton AND Orange Bowl. We come anywhere close to that and we'd be able to fill a 14,000 seat student section every single Saturday. Shit...they've gone to bowl games 21-straight seasons now!
UCLA is another interesting "case study" of sorts with overall attendance. When they're good, they will draw HUGE crowds to The Rose Bowl (see: tonight). When they're bad, like us, just the opposite (and they have a pretty damn good history). Their students won't even show up for early season day games in the heat.
Having terrible crowds at home games is very much a "Rutgers thing." Both the Wagner and Michigan State crowds were embarrassing despite the fraudulent attendance numbers announced by the athletic department. Can't wait to see the actual turnstile numbers, which Politi said he's in the process of obtaining.
No Rutgers fan should be criticizing football attendance at other schools. We might have the lowest actual attendance in the Big Ten.
@RUBlackout - I literally brought up our most recent two home games. The team had a good record going into both those games so there's no excuse. Attendance was pathetic at both and all the spin in the world on this board won't change that.
No Rutgers fan should be criticizing football attendance at other schools. We might have the lowest actual attendance in the Big Ten.
@RUBlackout - I literally brought up our most recent two home games. The team had a good record going into both those games so there's no excuse. Attendance was pathetic at both and all the spin in the world on this board won't change that.
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Could you have picked two of the worst games to associate attendance to....
Wagner is a High School game and better weather which implies many fairweather fans to do ANYTHING else
MSU was setup for a big attendance but weather was miserable and our fans(mostly fairweather still) will look for any reason not to go including Homecoming which there was a ton if interest for
Why dont we wait until OSU and then you can start chirping. MY biggest issue is our cheap fanbase selling tickets to OSU fans to make 2x their costs
